Game apparatus.



J. W. HANLEY.

GAME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED .nmzo, 1914.

1 11 4,608. Patented Oct. 20. 1914.

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GAME APPARATUS.

ToaZZ whom it may concern:

LEY, a citizen of the United States, .and a resident of the city of New, York, borough ofManhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Grame Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to games and toys and has particular reference to games of an educational as well as an amusing nature, and hence adapted especially for use by young children.

Among the objects of the invention is to provide a game aiming to teach the ultimate victory of good over evil or the optimistic domination of right conduct over evil conduct or mfluences,

Another object of the invention is to teach the natural characteristics of certain insects such as flies and spiders. 1

A still further object of the invention is to provide amusement and develop the skill of the eyes as well as of the fingers.

The foregoing and other objects of the invention will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the drawings forming a part of this specification in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a game board having thereon the various properties constituting a complete game; Fig. 2 is a perspective view indicating the manner of making the individual plays; and-Figs. 3 and 4; are perspective views of certain parts described below.

The several parts of the device may be made of any suitable materials, and the relative sizes and proportions, as well as the general design of the mechanism, may be varied to a considerable extent without departing from the spirit of the invention hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically claimed.

By way of a brief description of the nature of the game in its ethical aspects, it may be stated that the principle of the game is a huge spider web 10 substantially covering the field 11 of the game board 12, said web being woven by the wicked spy spider 13 and constituting his parlor. To this main web the spider will be understood to have added groups or'series of secret parlors 14 shown as located along the side edges of the field 11, six in number, but as PA NT OFFICE'7=F JOHN WILLIAM HARLEY, onivnwxortx, N. Y.

' Patented Oct. 2O,

Application riled Januar 20, 1914. Serial No. 813,202.

to-the precise number Ido not wish to, be Be itknown that T, JQI-IN. WILLIAM HAN- limited. Each of said secret parlors 14.:is

to be presumed to be provided, when" the game is set for operation, with a smallerweb 5 in the form of a disk and to' be covered,

or guarded by a small spider, representedfon another disk 16. These disks 15 and16 are [The main web 10 is surmounted by a gridiron 17 1I1Cl11( l1I1,ga series of transverse parallel bars or marks 18*dividingthe field'- into six panels .19, each. panel of which has two of the secret parlors 1 1 at its ends.v

lVithin, these secret parlors are printed or.

otherwise formed the names of the various species of spiders which are presumed to be invited to;a great feast by the wicked spy spider 13 who holds the center of the large web or parlor.

This game is intended to be played preferably by two persons seated at opposite ends of the board, and at'each players right hand is represented at 20 a large blue bottle fly which has the power to break and destroy a spider web. Each player is provided with a pair of disks 20 and 20", the vlatter of which is to be considered the direct representative of the good spy flyder 20. The disks 20" and 20 are operated upon a strip of cloth or felt 21 in the manner indicated in Fig. 2, and the smaller disk 20 in the pracgame, when the disk 20 so alights, the

player will be privileged to remove from the right hand series of secret parlors the spiders or spider disks 16 and then the webs 15 pertaining thereto, thereby destroying so much of the main web 10, the object of the game being to bring about the victory or the good spy fiyder over the wicked spy spider by totally destroying his web and defeating his ulterior purpose in inviting the fly'into his parlor.

The rules for playing the game may, of

course, be modified to a great extent, but

by way of suggestionor illustration it may be observed that the players will play in alternation, the player at one end snapping his disk 20, and each time said disk alights on a clear panel 19 the player may remove the spider from the right hand end of said in a clear panel having a Web 15 thereon or does not touch one of the gridiron bars 18.

The player Who first skilfully succeeds in removing the six Webs or six spiders from his or her side of the board Wins the game.

Having thus described my invention, I" claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1 The herein described game apparatus comprising a board having represented thereona field, a large spider Web covering said field, a gridiron including a series, 01 parallel bars traversingsaid field and formingthefield into a plurality of rectangular,

panels, a plurality of sets of disks arranged in pairs, said several pairs of disks being located at the-ends of said panels, and one -or more pairs of snapping disks, substantially as and tor the purposes set fiorth.

*2. The herein described game'- apparatus comprising a board having a home'station at eachend andi a strip of felt thereon, the main portion of the board constituting afield having represented thereon a huge spider Web and spider and also a series of transverse bars subdividing said field into transverse panels, a plurality of sets of variously col- .ored disks representing small spider Webslocated at the ends of said panels and removable therefrom, a plurality of series of smaller disks representing different species of spiders and variously colored to correspend with the several previously mentioned disks and located upon and removable from said disks While the game progresses, and means adapted to be despatched from the players station into said field, said means representing a fly able to destroy the spiders Web, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN WILLIAM HANLEY. Witnesses:

ARTHUR 'KUESTER, AUGUST SWAMM.

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Washington, 11.0. 

